GSLS Students

15/09/2021

Apollo Society Utrecht is accepting new applications for 2021-2022!

Are you a Master’s student at the Graduate School of Life Sciences/ Medical Master’s student? Do you have an affinity for translational medicine and want to gain extracurricular knowledge and skills? Do you want to participate in lively discussions and be part of a close-knit network of medicine and life sciences students, PhD students and young doctors? Then you are a perfect fit for Apollo Society Utrecht! The application deadline is 17 October and you can apply via https://utrecht.apollosociety.eu/apply/.

Interested? Watch the video to know more: https://youtu.be/aSEwbKyhC38

We have an Open Meeting on Friday 24/09 (https://fb.me/e/k0NemPm5y) and an information night on Wednesday 29/09 (https://fb.me/e/Ygdu4qDd). We hope to see you there!

08/09/2021

The Educational Committee and Life Science Representatives are looking for new members!

The Educational Committee is made up of 7 students and 7 teachers. Its task is to guard the quality of education of the Master’s programmes within the GSLS. Besides the evaluation of courses, giving of recommendations and advising on a variety of topics, there is plenty of room for your own projects. When becoming a member of the EC, you automatically become a member of the LSR as well.

The Life Science Representatives are the representatives of all GSLS Master’s programmes. The LSR consists of students from as many different programmes as possible. They keep in touch with the students, master coordinators and course coordinators to inquire about any study and wellbeing problems. Furthermore, they are responsible for projects like the buddy programme.

More information can be found at http://studyguidelifesciences.nl/organisation/educational-committee and https://studyguidelifesciences.nl/organization/life-sciences-representatives.

Are you interested? Write us what you apply for with a short motivation and send it, together with your resume, to LSR@umcutrecht.nl. For any questions, feel free to contact us!

The application deadline for the EC is Tuesday the 14th of September, for the LSR it is Friday the 17th.

21/06/2021

Can you help create a better learning & working environment?

Is it important to you to have a learning & working environment which is open, stimulating, safe and inspiring? Well, of course! To make this happen, we need to work together. Do you want to help identify problem areas and think of ways we can realize the desired culture together? Please joins us for a work session on 30 June organized for bachelor and master students.

What: Work session open and stimulating learning and working environment
Who: Students of the faculty of medicine
Day: Wednesday 30 June
Time: 17:00 – 19:00h
Important: Pizza included

For registration & info; please visit: https://students.uu.nl/en/events/work-session-open-and-stimulating-learning-and-working-environment

17/05/2021

On the 20th of May, you are cordially invited to attend the next edition of our Life Sciences seminar series. The seminar will be live-streamed via Zoom and a recording will be made so you can also watch it back later. This seminar is brought to you by the GSLS in collaboration with the Master’s programme of Bio Inspired Innovation.

We are delighted to have prof. Sarah Gurr from Exeter University as our speaker for the May Life Sciences seminar. Prof. Gurr is a world-renowned expert in the field of plant disease with an impressive track record of publications and distinctions. She will be giving us a talk entitled: “The global movement of fungal crop pathogens: models, predictions and perils”.

The seminar will take place this Thursday, 20th of May at 16:00.
The lecture will be live-streamed via Zoom. You can also use this platform to direct your questions to the speaker. Go here: https://zoom.us/j/98787781124?pwd=M21peXpkYzJRMXpXUWdFemhHR0FiZz09 to tune in (Passcode 485854).

A recording of the seminar will be placed online afterwards so you can watch back later. You will receive an email with details about this next week.

To register for the seminar, go here: https://www.formdesk.com/universiteitutrecht/LS_seminar_May (this is needed if you wish to use this seminar in your final track list). The registration link will be active between 17 May - 13 June, 2021. During these days you can watch back and register for the seminar. After the final date, the registration link will no longer be valid but you will continue to have access to the recording.
Please keep your own personal record of which seminars you attended and registered for.

For more information about the seminar, visit the study guide: https://studyguidelifesciences.nl/seminars/global-movement-fungal-crop-pathogens-models-predictions-and-perils

Go here to join the live stream (passcode 485854).Go here to register for the seminar.You will have until the 13th of June 2021 to watch back and register for the seminar. After this day, the registration link will no longer be valid.Please take a few minutes to fill in the Evaluation survey about t...

30/03/2021

Are you looking for the right path towards a master’s program or after that ?

Do you wonder how you can make such a choice ?

The career services is organizing a workshop during which you will discuss how to approach your selection-process and increase the quality of your choosing.

Below are some reactions from the last workshop:

“This training is useful for everyone to get a good overview of how to make a good choice “

“Nice to learn that there are several roads leading to Rome, and that a detour is okay.

Sign up via the link below :
https://students.uu.nl/en/events/workshop-personal-leadership-making-choices-english

17/03/2021

Tomorrow, the 16th of March, the March Life Sciences Seminar will take place brought to you by the GSLS in collaboration with the Master’s programme of Drug Innovation. The seminar will be live-streamed via Zoom and a recording will be made so you can also watch it back later.

We are delighted to have prof. dr. Geert-Jan Boons from Utrecht University as our speaker for the March Life Sciences seminar. Professor Boons has studied how glycans can be exploited by viruses during infection but also how they can be altered in cancer. For this seminar he will be giving us a talk entitled: “Complex glycans in health and disease”.

The seminar will take place this Thursday, 18th of March at 16:00. The lecture will be live-streamed via Zoom. You can also use this platform to direct your questions to the speaker. Go here: https://zoom.us/j/92137281574?pwd=dWYwNndhdUhoQmpJeEtVd0RoNzl6UT09 to tune in (Passcode 525380).

A recording of the seminar will be placed online afterwards so you can watch back later. You will receive an email with details about this next week.

To register for the seminar, go here: https://fd21.formdesk.com/universiteitutrecht/LS_seminar_March (this is needed if you wish to use this seminar in your final track list). The registration link will be active between 15 March - 11 April, 2021. During these days you can watch back and register for the seminar. After the final date, the registration link will no longer be valid but you will continue to have access to the recording. Please keep your own personal record of which seminars you attended and registered for.

For more information about the seminar, visit the study guide: https://studyguidelifesciences.nl/seminars/complex-glycans-health-and-disease

Go here to join the live-stream of the seminar (passcode 525380).To register for the seminar, go here.You will have until the 11th of April 2021 to watch back and register for the seminar.

10/02/2021

Coming Friday, the 12th of February, you will be able to attend a special Life Sciences seminar which also doubles as the keynote lecture for the ILS week of the February starters. Due to this, the seminar will be live-streamed in the morning as opposed to the afternoon at 09:30. The seminar will be live-streamed via Zoom and a recording will be made so you can also watch it back later. This seminar is brought to you by the GSLS in the context of the ILS week.

We are delighted to have prof. dr. Geert Kops from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht as our speaker for the February Life Sciences seminar / ILS keynote lecture. Professor Kops is a world-renowned expert in the field of mitosis and more specifically in uncovering principles of chromosome segregation and their ties to the emergence of cancer. For this seminar he will be giving us a talk entitled: “Disjointed genomes: on chromosome segregation fidelity in health and disease”.

The lecture will be live-streamed via Zoom. You can also use this platform to direct your questions to the speaker. Go here: https://zoom.us/j/94315584334?pwd=bGVjaDFzbjFvb0FGSVFPbnFiQ2w1Zz09 to tune in (Passcode 749368).

A recording of the seminar will be placed online afterwards so you can watch back later. You will receive an email with details about this next week.

To register for the seminar, go here: https://www.formdesk.com/universiteitutrecht/Feb_LS_seminar (this is needed if you wish to use this seminar in your final track list). The registration link will be active between 12 February - 14 March, 2021. During these days you can watch back and register for the seminar. After the final date, the registration link will no longer be valid but you will continue to have access to the recording. Please keep your own personal record of which seminars you attended and registered for.

For more information about the seminar, visit the study guide: https://studyguidelifesciences.nl/seminars/disjointed-genomes-chromosome-segregation-fidelity-health-and-disease

Watch back here.To register for the seminar, go here.You will have until the 14th of MArch 2021 to watch back and register for the seminar.

14/01/2021

Are you looking for a fun activity to engage in? Look no further.

The Mebiose Master Committee is organizing a “ Crazy 69 activity” on the 29th of January at 20:00. You get to do fun assignments and compete for an amazing price.

Visit the link below to sign up and for more information.

https://forms.gle/SseJVFXHwRESHvpBA

representatives

16/12/2020

Tomorrow, the 17th of December, at 16.00, the last Life Science Seminar of the year will take place, brought to you by the GSLS in collaboration with the Foreign Excursion Committee of the study association Mebiose.

*Before and after the seminar, the Life Science Representatives would like to ask you to fill out a small questionnaire about how you are doing, which is very important! Look out for a QR code in the presentation, or already help us out by filling out the questionnaire via this link: https://forms.gle/bNWFE5CDG7RZSLWj8*

This time, Prof. Dr. Cecilia Sahlgren from Technical University Eindhoven will be our speaker. Her expertise combines in-depth knowledge of cell biology behind cell fate decisions in cancer and stem cells and innovative biomedical engineering, which she will share in her talk titled 'Biological design-control of cell fate in tissue regeneration and disease'.

The lecture will again be streamed via Zoom, via which you can also ask your questions, and is accessible via the following link: https://zoom.us/j/93694245940?pwd=NC9xSktOWEQwQ0lFSjhobWdKQ0o2QT09 (Password 058599). Don't forget to register: https://fd21.formdesk.com/universiteitutrecht/December_LS_seminar (link available until Jan 17th). The lecture will be recorded and instructions for revisiting it will be shared with you in another email.

For more information, visit the study guide: https://studyguidelifesciences.nl/seminars/biological-design-control-cell-fate-tissue-regeneration-and-disease

Dear student, we know these are difficult times for most of you. To get a better insight in how you are doing we would like you to fill in this questionnaire.

14/12/2020

We would like to share a message from a student in the Neuroscience and Cognition Masters program about a project idea for a GSLS Journal.

‘I am a Neuroscience and Cognition Master’s student at GSLS, and I came up with a project idea for a GSLS Journal. The project aims to create a journal created by students for students, which combines elements of scientific literature with those of popular science. I am currently trying to assess student attitude towards the project and would appreciate responses.’

Find more info about the project below.
https://forms.gle/pUHYa6xALAXyjpSa7.

03/12/2020

*Don't forget: Q&A session today at 13.00 about the brand new profiles*

You will have enough time to ask questions about all three profiles via the links to the meetings below or by sending an email to the following email addresses:
- Life Sciences & Society: MS Teams link: https://tinyurl.com/y48epcm3, LSSprofile@umcutrecht.nl
- Translational Life Sciences: MS Teams link: https://tinyurl.com/y2f9znz3, s.dejong-9@umcutrecht.nl
- General Research profile: MS Teams link: https://tinyurl.com/y3rszpul, researchprojectcoordinator@umcutrecht.nl

Please know that the Q&A sessions of all profiles run parallel to each other and take place on MS Teams.

We look forward to speaking to you at the Q&A session and to seeing you as participants in the profiles!